„Without your loveIt's a honky-tonk paradeWithout your loveIt's a melody played in a penny arcade.“

"It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933) (co-written with Billy Rose).Kontext: Without your loveIt's a honky-tonk paradeWithout your loveIt's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey worldJust as phony as it can beBut it wouldn't be make-believeIf you believed in me.

Quelle: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)Kontext: We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Keep+love+in+your+heart+a+life+without+it+is+like+a+sunless+garden+when+the+flowers+are+dead+the+consciousness+of+loving+and+being+loved+brings+a+warmth+and+richness+to+life+that+nothing+else+can+bring%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage (1952)